If he wanted to, Seth Baczynski could go around telling people that he just doesn’t have time for 15-minute fights, and that’s why he tends to finish them quicker than that. And really, he wouldn’t be lying.

Baczynski (17-6 MMA, 4-1 UFC) is a utilities worker by day, often clocking 60 hours a week at that job. And when he’s not working, he’s got five kids at home under the age of 10 to certainly qualify as another full-time job as a parent.

And oh, by the way – he also happens to be pretty busy in the fight game, as well.

With the full-time job and a wife and five kids at home, it’s no wonder Baczynski has finishes in 16 of his 17 wins. He goes after his seventh straight victory and fifth straight in the UFC on Friday when he meets Mike Pierce (15-5 MMA, 7-3 UFC) at UFC on FX 6 in Australia. The welterweights meet on the preliminary card on FUEL TV (6 p.m. ET) prior to a main card on FX (9 p.m. ET).

Baczynski said the schedule, which has to include training at Power MMA & Fitness in Arizona alongside the likes of Ryan Bader, C.B. Dollaway and Aaron Simpson, is one that he makes work for him.

“In life, you just do what you’ve got to do,” he recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “It’s something I’m really passionate about and love doing, and I feel like I’ve got an opportunity to really make it a permanent fixture and be someone who’s going to be in the UFC for a long time. I’m at a point in my career where you’ve got to make time and do what you’ve got to do to make it work. That’s just kind of how I look at it.

“But every now and then, I’ve got to kick back and recharge on the weekends.”

Baczynski lost trying to get into the house on Season 11 of “The Ultimate Fighter,” but he got a second chance thanks to an injury. He won a fight in the house, and got to have a spot on the TUF 11 Finale – a rematch against Brad Tavares from their quarterfinal matchup during the season. But he dropped a split call and was sent packing.

Over the span of the next year, Baczynski picked up a pair of TKO wins, though, and when Clay Harvison fell off the UFC’s September 2011 show in New Orleans with an injury, Baczynski was called on for a short-notice fight and chance at redemption.

He hasn’t looked back.

He stopped DaMarques Johnson with a second-round submission that night. Two months later, he choked out Matt Brown at UFC 139. (And after that loss, Brown has been on a tear with four straight wins in 2012 – so that win for Baczynski was plenty nice for the resume.) In June, he made it three in a row with the first decision win of his career, a split call against Lance Benoist. And in September, he knocked out Simeon Thoresen in the first round at UFC 152.

Unassuming it may be, but Baczynski, a former middleweight, is the only undefeated welterweight in the UFC with at least three fights in the division. A win over Pierce would make him 5-0 in the promotion since his return and would certainly get him to the next level of competition, higher, even, than Pierce is for him.

Baczynski said a relentless training approach has helped him take his fight game to the next level.

“Just being more dedicated and putting more time in (has helped me),” he said. “A lot of times, when the team practice is over, I’ll stay after with my coaches and just try to work stuff over and over. So much until it drives you crazy how much you do it. Just attention to detail and getting older and more mature was a big help, too.”

Baczynski has fought outside the country before, but never outside North America. On Friday, he’s fighting in a time zone 17 hours ahead of his Arizona home. That can be enough to jack up some fighters’ patterns.

But Baczynski said he’s paying that very little mind. And that’s no surprise, given all he seems to juggle between home, work and training.

“I don’t put too much into that,” he said. “It’s going to be a little different. But the way I look at it is, if you’re a good carpenter in Arizona, you’re a good carpenter in Australia. Once I get there and get acclimated and working out, it’ll be fine.

“I think stuff in sports can be a factor if you let it be. I’ve been fighting long enough so that all I have to do is get there, make weight, warm up and I’m going to go perform. Maybe when I was younger, I’d let it mess with my mind a little bit. But I really don’t feel too different once I get acclimated. The first couple days is weird, but once I’m there a couple days it’s all good.”

It has indeed been all good for Baczynski since getting his second UFC shot. A win over Pierce, whose only UFC losses have come to title challengers Jon Fitch and Josh Koscheck and No. 1 contender Johny Hendricks, all by close decision, would be all better.

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